2009
11
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Sunrise at Reculver |
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Wednesday, 11 March 2009 |
Sunrise at Reculver | - Click on the image above to view gallery
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 Pink sky just before sunrise
 Constantly changing colours The particular shot I had in mind from a few days before was close to a seaweed covered water outlet pipe which really isn’t photogenic at all, but I knew that if I could slow the speed of the shot down enough by using a Neutral Density filter I might get a pleasing effect on the moving water. So, once the sun had risen enough to light up the towers, I set up my tripod and took a few photos.
 Previous visit  The view at Sunrise
As it was the first time I had taken any sunrise pictures it was a huge learning curve for me. The first lesson was that it is very easy to get incredibly cold. I had several layers on, plus a down jacket, hat and gloves that would have normally have kept me plenty warm enough at the temperature it was, but still I felt so cold because I wasn’t moving around very much, just standing on cold wet sand. I also learnt that to get the best colours in the sky I needed to have been there much earlier, before when the sun actually rose above the horizon.
It’s something I’ll definitely be doing again but finding suitable places so I know just where I want to be at sunrise and preferably close to where the car is parked too is my next task.
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